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Hidemasa Nakamura (R) games delivery officer for the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), joins other representatives from the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee at a joint press briefing in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2021. Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP
TOKYO—It will be an Olympics like no other, the world’s largest mega-sports event being staged in the middle of a pandemic.
Tokyo organizers and the IOC on Wednesday began explaining in public just how they hope to do it, rolling out “Playbooks” to detail the ways that 15,400 athletes will enter Japan—and exit Japan—with the Olympics opening on July 23 and the Paralympics a month later.